How to add user to sudoers on Linux

Overview This post will cover multiple procedures on how to add user to sudoers on Linux or in other words, how to give sudo privileges to a user on Linux. The steps showcased here can be applied for almost any Linux distribution. We’re also going to showcase how to add a missing sudoers file and sudoers group in Linux, which by default may occur on some minimal Linux installations(usually on the first and fresh install). ...

December 18, 2023 · 4 min · 751 words · MarkoN

How to create a user in Ubuntu

Overview The following article will demonstrate the steps on how to create a user in Ubuntu. Also, we’ll be demonstrating how to delete user in Ubuntu and all actions we’ll be executed in terminal. Knowing how to create a user in Ubuntu and how to delete a user is one of the basic skills a Linux user(admin) should know and still one of the most important skills as well to have(user management). Reason behind this is, because in every multi user operating system(Linux as well) there are and there should be a sets of different user permissions and different user groups. This is because of security reasons. ...

October 14, 2021 · 5 min · 938 words · MarkoN